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Ah but that doesn't work when it's not just a couple of users. The mods in womensstuff have to deal with men forcing themselves in those posts constantly. And I run into these types of misogynistic beliefs much more frequently on Lemmy than I would on Reddit for example. This is the culture that's been allowed to proliferate here.
I've been here for a little while and can observe a few things.
Your default feed depends entirely on what the people in your instance are subscribed to.
There are some instances that seem particularly obnoxious and repeatedly trigger pile-ons and other unkind behaviour.
There's a bunch of undeclared bots.
Some communities have a particular aversion to people randomly participating.
To have a better experience, I use a bunch of filter words to stop crap I have no interest in. I also filter URLs for the same reason.
I use "block" when there's a post with worldviews being expressed that are incompatible with my own views.
There's a bunch of communities that have content I don't care for and I again use block.
When I see spam, I report the post and block the poster.
I have account age turned on which alerts me if an account is "new here" and already obnoxious.
Since karma doesn't work here, I display the aggregate vote, which helps you determine for yourself if you might want to interact with the post.
I tend to use the "All" feed, which is what allows me to see posts like yours without subscribing to the community.
I dip into communities and contribute when I feel compelled, which has me posting all over the fediverse.
It's a different experience from Mastodon or BlueSky, but there's plenty to like about it and not better or worse than the other platforms.
When I used Reddit, there was a particular humour that had an interesting vibe about it, but the blackout and mod bans had me leave for the fediverse and while I miss that brand of humour, I don't regret leaving and from time to time I see the seeds of it here.
You also have to remember, this is by comparison a pretty small community and it's going through growing pains, triggered by regular influx from other platforms.
On the whole, I'm glad I'm here.
I fully agree with you, I enjoy Lemmy more than Reddit for a few reasons. And now that I've been here long enough to tailor my subscription feed, it's great. There's quite a few thoughtful and interesting users here that I very much enjoy running into from time to time.
There is a feeling that this place is not dissimilar to early Reddit or 4chan and those places had their issues with being predominately male as well. I'm not going anywhere and I'm hoping to help shape this place to be even more welcoming for a larger range of different people.
I have account age turned on which alerts me if an account is “new here” and already obnoxious.
How do you do this? i use piefed...anyone know how to set this up...please and thank you
On my Lemmy Voyager app it's under Settings -> General -> Comments -> New Account Highlightinator.
😃 thanks I’ll take a look